No. 23-1229October Term 2024Decided Jun 18, 2025
Environmental Protection Agency, Petitioner v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al.
This case concerns the proper venue for small oil refineries to challenge the EPA's denial of their hardship exemptions from the Renewable Fuel Standard program.
Case status
- Current stage
- Decided
- Latest event
- Decision released Jun 18, 2025
- What it's about
This case concerns the proper venue for small oil refineries to challenge the EPA's denial of their hardship exemptions from the Renewable Fuel Standard program. The Supreme Court determined that these challenges must be heard in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals because the EPA's denials were based on determinations with nationwide scope or effect.
Question presented
Should challenges by small oil refineries seeking exemptions from the requirements of the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard program be heard exclusively in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit because the agency’s denial actions are “nationally applicable” or “based on a determination of nationwide scope or effect”?
- Case path
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit / Decision released Jun 18, 2025
- Area
Administrative Law
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Grounding
- Grounding
- Primary-source trail available.
- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
- Checked
- Mar 30, 2026
- Method
- Methodology
Primary materials8
Supreme Court docket 23-1229
docket | Mar 30, 2026
Primary case document
Supreme Court document | Mar 30, 2026
CourtListener docket record
docket | Mar 30, 2026
Questions Presented
brief | Mar 8, 2026
opinion
opinion | Jun 18, 2025
Opinion
opinion | Jun 18, 2025
Oral Arguments - EPA v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C.
audio | Mar 25, 2025
Petition
brief | May 20, 2024